Although the audience couldn't see the video feed from inside Renato and his team's Mechas, their unshielded audio came through clearly to every spectator.
Since they weren't very familiar with the different types of Xenobeasts, they looked it up on the Intelligent Brain.
They hadn't thought much of it, but a quick search revealed that, just as Renato had said, the creature known as a Rock Mongoose looked almost identical to the Xenobeast in the snow, apart from its fur color.
"Could it be a close relative?"
"This is the Polar Region, after all. Maybe a different evolutionary path?"
"They really do look alike. But why are there so many dead Xenobeasts here?"
"Did the officials pick a place like this on purpose? But there's nothing about this in the rules. Isn't victory determined by who gets the Token in the end?"
Even the observers from the Federation and the Empire frowned deeply as they watched the screen.
